HEY, CALIFORNIA
me – vocals, mandolin
OVERTURE
Rob – guitar, baritone guitar
me – piano, tambourine
Things seem back on track. I did backing vocals for the end of HEY, CALIFORNIA. A small struggle at first, since it was early in the day for me and my voice is always a bit rough then. They were these atypical three part harmonies, that Rob kept making “the Mamas and the Papas” jokes about. He came up with them, though, so who’s to blame? I ask you. I also played mandolin during the bridge-like portion of the song. The song is very sparse up until the end, it should really stand out on the CD.
Rob added another electric guitar to OVERTURE, the Les Paul, and a solo. He also did a track playing my baritone guitar with a lot of fuzz on the sound. The baritone was in the studio throughout Slumberland, as well, but was never used. I did a piano track, the same method as the original version of this song that was scrapped, with the piano mic’d and run through the rotating leslie. That’s a fun sentence if you don’t know what the hell I’m talking about. I also played a really jazzy tambourine, in honor of my friend Scott (who isn’t dead).
We’ve added time this week, which is good. I’ll be there tomorrow during the day again, then Thursday day and night, and then Friday during the day. So I feel a lot more confident about getting the recording finished and getting “Jeff Lynne” mixed by Friday.